About Us
Advisory Board
| Tracy S. Weeks, Ph.D. ---- K-12 Representative Chief Academic Officer NC Virtual Public School tweeks@dpi.state.nc.us |
Wanda Barker ---- Community Colleges Representative Distance Learning Director North Carolina Community Colleges System barkerw@nccommunitycolleges.edu |
| Kim Eke ---- Higher Education Representative Teaching and Learning Interactive Manager University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill keke@email.unc.edu |
Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. ---- Community Manager Director of Research and Development in Online C & I LEARN NC – School of Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill bhobgood@learnnc.org |
| Brandon Sams ---- Graduate Research Assistant LEARN NC – UNC School of Education blsams@email.unc.edu |
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What? NC LearningOnline is an online portal that serves as a space to develop a virtual professional learning community for online learning. Why? The primary goal for the project is to unite educators from the K-12 community, community college community, and higher education community who have an interest in online learning. The site will offer resources to inform developing, teaching, and administering online courses. It will also promote social networking through the Community Builder to begin to form a collaborative community K-20. The site will also serve as a “go-to” place for news and event information related to online learning in North Carolina |
Who? It is open to all educators K-20 in North Carolina and beyond. Online instructors and course designers from K-12, Community College and Higher Education are the primary audience for this site. The audience also includes institution administrators who want to know more about online learning as they begin to offer more courses online as a part of their course catalogs. The site will also be valuable for potential online instructors who want to inform themselves before making decisions about teaching online.
How? Users should be encouraged to create a free account on the site and to consider taking advantage of information tools like the RSS feed. If they already teach online, design online courses, or administer online courses, they should be encouraged to submit articles, news, opportunities and relevant website links
When? While the site is up and running now, it is still a work in progress. You are encouraged to create a free user profile by clicking on the Create new account link at the bottom of this page so that you can begin to meet members of the community, comment on site content, partcipate in forum discussions, and create your own blog entries.
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